IJCATR Volume 5 Issue 5

Cryptographic Hash Function using Cellular Automata

Mohamed Mahmoud ElRakaiby
10.7753/IJCATR0505.1001
keywords : file digest; hash; one way function; cellular automata

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In this paper we make use of statistical properties of applying elementary cellular automata on a block of bits to generate a fixed size digest of that block to use it as hash function which can be use in different cryptographic applications.
@artical{m552016ijcatr05051001,
Title = "Cryptographic Hash Function using Cellular Automata",
Journal ="International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research(IJCATR)",
Volume = "5",
Issue ="5",
Pages ="238 - 240",
Year = "2016",
Authors ="Mohamed Mahmoud ElRakaiby"}
  • Paper discuss basic functionality of a hash function
  • Paper describes breifly cellular automata basics
  • It uses cellular automata to produce a simple hash function
  • It divided the process into building blocks and described each one